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Large and complex artifacts are usually operated by a team for its safety and efficiency, and breakdowns of team cooperation sometimes cause accidents. Studies of team cooperation therefore have been drawn attention from human factors and ergonomics researchers. Team situation awareness (TSA) has been regarded as one of the important topics in such team cooperation studies. Definitions of TSA in such studies are, however, mainly based on the perspective of observers. Some studies have pointed out that it is necessary to define TSA from the perspective of “belief” that team members possess in other members’ SA in order to capture the dynamics of team cooperation. In this study, evaluation indexes of TSA from both perspectives were proposed and they were compared with team performance. The results suggest that it is necessary to evaluate team SA not only from the perspective of observers but also from the perspective of beliefs.
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Nonose, K., Kanno, T. & Furuta, K. An evaluation method of team situation awareness based on mutual belief. Cogn Tech Work 12, 31–40 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10111-008-0127-y
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